The sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections on Thursday saw slightly over 55% voting for 57 seats spread across 10 eastern UP districts, falling behind the 56.47% turnout for these constituencies in 2017.
To be sure, turnout figures are often updated the following day.
A total of 676 candidates, including chief minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur Urban seat, are in the fray in the penultimate phase. Other prominent faces contesting the poll in this phase include state Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu from Tamkuhi Raj and Swami Prasad Maurya, who was a minister in the Adityanath government before he quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) just ahead of the elections to join the Samajwadi Party, contested from Fazilnagar.
According to tentative figures updated at 7 pm, 55.79% polling was recorded in the 57 seats. The final tally will be released by the poll authorities later, state officials said. Around 21.5 million people were eligible to vote in this phase.
